Some Recent Work

Some recent lectures, publications, and cooking demos.The 20th Anniversary Edition of Hoppin’ John’s Lowcountry Cooking was released in August 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Signed copies of the book are available on my commercial site. I’ll also be lecturing at the Charleston Heritage Symposium during the first weekend of October, in the midst of the Annual Tour of Homes, to benefit the Preservation Society of Charleston. The symposium is sold out, but it kicks off with me signing books at the Preservation Society Book Store on Friday, October 5, form 2 to 4 pm.

Charleston Magazine profiled me in their September issue, but the article mistakenly says that there are new recipes included, when in fact there is only a new preface. The University of North Carolina Press, which published the new edition, considered the original and classic and wanted no changes.

Southern Living also lavishes praise on the book and my influence on Charleston dining, but the article mistakenly identifies the Lee Bros. as Charleston natives and incorrectly states that Hoppin’ John’s, my culinary bookstore and cooking school, closed after Hurricane Hugo. I was, indeed, closed for a year to rebuild both my home and shop, but I remained in business nonstop from 1986-1999.

The Fall 2012 issue of Gastronomica has an article by me in which I discover the meaning of a mysterious word in the African-American classic, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Southern Cooking. You can read the article here.

March, 2011: Charleston Art & Antiques Forum Historical Dinner at the Miles Brewton House I was invited to plan an historically accurate dinner at one of the finest and most historically important homes in America. You can read about it on my blog here.